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On the crossing road, there was a parked car, 10 kilometers away from the town with a police station; the car was a couple who had not made a decision. After he finished telling the story of the captain, it seemed that there was no more ——When a state of stagnation appears, when an indecisive hesitation exists, the story comes to an end. This is an unnamed state without a direction, this is an unobvious marriage relationship, and this is a state of escape that cannot be chosen. But when it finally slid to the end in a motionless manner, all contradictions and even paradoxes seemed to have just begun.
There must be something missing. The young man has already left. After kissing Christina passionately, he took his bag and walked away. Of course, after falling into the water, he never showed up with Christina's husband Ander. In front of Rui, a sudden burst of passion occurred in a secret state. This is a metaphor-he is an intruder, but an existence without a name from the beginning to the end. When such an unknown person breaks in The lives of Christina and Andre are undoubtedly like that car, just like their state, playing a deconstructive meaning, in other words, the nameless state of young people is like an illusion, a symbol, in the wife In the life of seemingly divorced from the husband, it will appear in any way, but withdraw in a certain way, but in the process of entering and exiting, the seemingly stable structure of the two people has been shattered.
At first it was stable, at least it seemed stable. On this Sunday, they drove the luxury car of the embassy together, and then boarded their own private yacht to start their vacation life. This is a middle-class lifestyle, and the marriage relationship between two people seems to be the same as this luxury car and this yacht. It is a kind of prosperous and stable existence. This is a state of being named. Like the name written on the yacht, it is the name of his wife Christina. But this is a kind of appearance, the inner contradiction is brewing secretly: with the movement of the car, those whirling tree shadows
Projected on the car window glass, there is a feeling of alienation; at first the woman drove the man and sat next to him, and then switched positions. When the man controlled the direction and speed, it was a role change between control and being controlled; midway they saw it. A car accident happened outside of their story. It seemed irrelevant, but it was a hint; they were also talking during the 3 minutes and 50 seconds of driving. Andre also kissed Christina, but they were talking. The sound seemed to be covered, and the sound from the radio was the existence of a kind of otherness.
On Sundays, luxury cars, yachts, vacations, couples, this is a romantic combination, but the man’s desire for control and the feeling of separation and reunion between husband and wife have been revealed, but it still maintains this appearance, which really breaks all this. The appearance of stability is the intruder. In fact, young people becoming intruders are also the beginning of self-sabotage by couples in a sense. Andre saw the hitchhiker in the distance. He honked the horn and seemed to ask him to get out of the way. The young man standing in the middle of the road seemed to ignore it. At this time, according to normal logic, Andre should slow down, or even slowly He walked around, but he drove at a normal speed until he almost hit the young man. Why Andrea did this is nothing more than his desire to control. He first braked suddenly, then got out of the car and accused the young man of almost letting him hit him, then smoked and called him a "jerk", and then said to Christina: "If If you were driving, you might have hit it a long time ago." Undoubtedly, you are showing off your driving skills, and when you stop the car, Andre does not refuse the young man to take a ride. He even pushes him into the car forcibly, "Or you You can get yourself a good night's sleep." This is not Andrea’s kindness, he is still showing off: the car is a luxury car of the embassy, young people cast envy from the beginning, Andrea called him a "child "Speaking to him as if he was a successful person in society.
The young man claimed to be a traveler, belonging to the land world, and when Andre forced him to take a ride, he deliberately let him get on the yacht. The young people kindly helped them get their luggage onto the yacht. When he was about to leave on the road, Andre stopped him, and at first advised him, "Don't risk your death and get a car." Then let him board the boat. See your own driving skills, whether it is advice or invitation, Andre always stands in the position of a controller, just like an adult is to an ignorant child. And on the yacht, On the one hand, Andre used this to show off his skills. He hoisted the sails skillfully, steered the helm skillfully, and told young people who had never boarded a boat: "This requires brains, not muscles." Andre Rui told him that the thing was not a pot, but a compass; told him not to whistle, because it violated the "Crew Code"; spit in the water to know if it was driving. On the other hand, as the captain, he ordered him to pull the rope, and even later asked him to scrub the deck.
Andre always talks with young people as the controller, and the control is also removing the identity of the young people on the land, that is to say, Andre forcibly pulls the intruder into his own order , Let him be obedient, let him tame, let him see his ignorance. It is this desire for control that caused the tension between them. When Andrey was speaking on the boat, the young man yawned. This was the first confrontation. The young man saw Andrey holding the pot with a clamp and laughed at his action, and Andrey asked him to use it. The pot fell off. This was the second head-on conflict; the young man wanted to return to the shore, but he couldn't steer the helm, so he picked up the wood pulp and started to paddle. He, so the young people threw the oars into the water, and Andre angrily ordered him to pick it up. This was their third head-on confrontation.
One is the controller of the water and the other is the traveler on the land. The two cannot be integrated, and their frontal conflict will only become more and more intense, but in the process, Christina played a buffer role. From the very beginning in the car, she kept a certain estrangement from Andre. When the youth got on the boat, she did not stand by Andre’s side. More often, she was just a bystander, but when they were in conflict. It became more and more obvious that Christina was standing in the middle ground. When the oar was thrown away, she jumped into the water and picked it up, and then played with Andrey in the water. This eased the conflict between the two men. Come down. When they returned to sail and were preparing to dock, a strong wind caused the yacht to run aground. This was a public incident that might endanger their safety. After the public incident, the relationship between the two people also tended to ease. The journey of this day cannot be ended by docking, and the relationship between the three people has changed in a subtle way.
They hid in the cabin, and the three of them drank and played games. In the process, Andre became more and more alienated. He was interested in sports reports on the radio. That kind of power exercise fits his desire for control, so At Christina’s suggestion, Andrey put on the headphones, but in addition to the sports information and the sound of the headphones, Christina and the young people were immersed in the best game. Christina lost and was punished to take off. He bought a leather shoe, the young man took off his belt when he lost, and then Christina sang a song in order to get the leather shoe back, and the young man read a poem for the belt—the song and the poem made up two people. The limited lyrical space, and the sports news that Andre listened to, formed a great contrast, and this also paved the way for the conflict that escalated again the next day.
The alarm was originally at five o’clock in the morning, but Christina, who could not sleep, got up and sat on the deck to smoke. The young people also woke up early, and then climbed up the mast to check the halyard. The two were on the deck, and Andre was below. In the cabin, two people wake up while Andre is sleeping—up and down, waking up and going to sleep, forming different physical and psychological spaces. So when Andre woke up, he seemed to have realized something. He put the spring dagger that the young man put on the table into his pocket. When he climbed out of the cabin and came to the deck, he seemed to have entered the same space. But it was a state of estrangement, and even turned into opposition in the end. When the young man was packing his bag, he found that the dagger was missing. He asked Andre, who told him it was in his pocket, and then deliberately refused to give it to him. Finally, when he threw it at the young man, the dagger fell into the water. The young man angrily asked Andre to pick it up, but Andre refused, so he started fighting, and the young man fell into the water.
The young man has always carried the dagger with him. When he took it out for the first time, it was metaphorical in itself. At that time, Christina also had a fruit knife in her hand. It seemed indistinguishable, but Christina's fruit knife It is a daily necessities, and the young people’s dagger is a survival tool. He said that this is a necessary tool for his travels, especially in the forest. As a survival necessity, the dagger is sharp and even opposite, so be a young person. Taking out this dagger, it will inevitably conflict with Andre’s order, just as the young man said: “There is nothing that can be cut on the water.” He used the knife to skillfully play between his fingers. This skill is right. It was something that Andre didn't have. This action was challenging, and it was undoubtedly threatened to Andre, who had always been in control.
And when the dagger was thrown into the water, the young man's anger reached its peak, and as he fell into the water, the reversal began. Young people once said that she could not swim, so Christina accused Andre for the first time: "You killed this kid." Then she jumped into the water to save him, but there was nothing on the water except the buoy, Christina The search was fruitless, and the frightened Andre also jumped down. After turning around the buoy, he did not find any young people. Finally, he finally decided to swim back to the shore or tell the police. It was the first time that Andre left the world under his control. This was also Christina's first anger. The two deconstructed their seemingly divorced relationship for the first time, but they created conditions for new possibilities.
Young people can actually swim, in fact, it is near the buoy. He dived into the water so that they couldn't find it. When Andre left, he slowly swam back to the boat. After seeing Christina naked while changing clothes occasionally, he climbed onto the boat. , And Christina saw him swim back by himself because she was worried about him drowning. A feeling of being deceived made her slap the young people a few times, and when she called Andrea’s name and did not respond, Christina let the whole body The trembling young people put on Andre’s pajamas—a kind of substitution relationship happened, after which they talked, and then they kissed together after looking at each other. The young people said: “Monday is the best day.”
Andre has changed from being a controller to a person of fear, and young people from an intruder to a substitute. This is a rewriting of order and a deconstruction of the relationship between husband and wife. If no young people appear, Christy Na and Andre will also take this step, so this is a deconstructed inevitability ending. The nameless young man is just a symbol. He awakens and activates Christina’s rebellious emotions, for the first time in them. Become the active person in the relationship-a cheating kiss, which completely covers the kiss that Andre kissed her in the car. Moreover, the existence and activation of the nameless intruder exists in the form of a lie. : It's a lie that he can't swim. It's a lie that he was drowned. He finally left Christina and disappeared in front of Andre's eyes. It was also a state of concealment like a lie.
But the saddest thing is that when the unknown person and lies deconstructed their relationship, and Andre, who was once the master, was still in the world of self-fiction, Christina told the truth in the car: the young man is not dead, he Hiding behind the buoy, but Andre didn’t believe it at all: “I found it myself, and I’m sure there is no one behind the buoy.” It’s still conceited, still living in self-order, and even taking Christina’s truth as it is. Lie: "You are the one who really lied." Poor Andre was like a joke he told on the boat, when Kristina asked him at last: "Your story is not finished yet." Andre said this. The story came to the end: "He was a great captain, but he was too confident, and finally stepped on the broken glass and failed. He took a year to raise his feet, and then I never had it again. Met him."
The confident and conceited captain, the captain who was stabbed with broken glass and injured his foot, and the captain who never appeared again, is not a portrayal of Andrey himself, and when the car stopped at that intersection, whether it was going to the police station and saying " "A child drowned", or go home to escape responsibility. For him, it is always fear and an uncontrollable sense of namelessness—whether young people appear or not, spring daggers or not, it doesn’t really matter, only Life will become a state of eternal stagnation at the crossroads.
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